The "Gildia" exhibition by Olga Micińska introduces an imagined guild of female carpenters and woodworkers, inspired by historical journeymen traditions. Featuring Micińska's sculptures alongside objects from the museum's collection and photographs, it constructs a powerful narrative. This presentation invites visitors to rethink object production and traditional gender roles in manual labor, emphasizing collaboration in craft.
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The exhibition 'Gildia' by Olga Micińska presents a fictional guild of female carpenters and woodworkers. It explores themes of craftsmanship, collaboration, and challenging traditional gender roles in manual labor through sculptures, objects from the museum's collection, and photographs.
The exhibition "Gildia" ("Guild") by Olga Micińska tells the story of a yet-to-exist guild of female carpenters and woodworkers, drawing on the tradition of German journeymen guilds. Micińska stages a temporary stopover for the members of this imagined "Gildia" within the Gallery Rynek 30 space. The artist utilizes her own sculptures-objects alongside items selected from the Museum of Warsaw's collection, complemented by photographs, to construct a narrative about a female craft association. The form of this imagined guild encourages a rethinking of object production, traditionally associated with male labor, physical strength, and hierarchy. Within the craftswomen's union established by the artist, a utopian situation unfolds, featuring a fair division of labor, belief in the power of collaboration, and aesthetic revaluation. Micińska employs seemingly simple objects such as blankets, transport crates, linen shirts, and nail polishers. She constructs a world where there is also room for respect for the body and the physicality of the worker. Delicate silks in airy journeymen's clothing and woven fabrics represent another significant motif in her work. "Gildia" continues Olga Micińska's ongoing artistic practices, which delve into research and performance. Her focus areas include craftsmanship, particularly woodworking and weaving, as well as the organizational methods and systemic principles underlying these processes. A platform for her artistic and production activities is The Building Institute, founded by Micińska in Amsterdam. This artistic-mentorship project has a concrete educational dimension, aimed at training and supporting young women to increase their participation in traditionally male-dominated craft professions related to wood processing.
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